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 calix house was burned to the ground it was one of the many inverted nish destroyed by the fierce fire the top three people leaving devastation in its wake. we've lived here for five years and now this is all that remains of our home now they have to stay in a refuge then one of two in the city. to help. 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 an. 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 whilst many have lost their houses to the fire kareena and alexandra remain great name 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 that 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 to now to first tend to settle in the city 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. i was at work when my son called me and there is

a for clues to how i rushed in fifteen minutes he called back instead everything and there are no foreign fighters here when a truth 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've also heard from the russian paycheck has expressed his condolences to some of these people. everyone. and we can't control it but we can't control you know. 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 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 think and of course you can see behind me the destruction that these fires are causing everyone very very kings and the situation and show more damage isn't. this is r.t. in moscow still to come this hour president gathers opinions on whether it was right for the web site wiki leaks to release u.s. military. of a 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. but first this week the u.s. added thirty seven billion dollars to its war budget after congress approved further funding for the afghan troops surge capitol hill was on the move 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 the white house has requested wiki leaks to stop posting top secret documents but the founder and editor in chief of the website julian assange says they've tried to cooperate with the white house but have received no response but we're looking at the issue seriously to see where it is true we did hold back to being thousand reports for the because they had this sort of classification that suggests that maybe they contain that sort of material we approached the white house to ask them for assistance in reviewing material before we published the white house did not accept that request. in april we can weeks released a video apparently showing u.s. soldiers in iraq shooting civilians from a helicopter as i can find out soldiers who served on the frontline say it was not some 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 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 then 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 of these and who are we the soldier with the unit that's shown in the video said it hadn't been on one time experience and went

elsewhere is to say shooters 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 bears serving the same unit as ethan mccarthy word he refused to talk about the order because it is he said the threats and warnings that he'd received from his former army fellow with the secret video of how they come to killings seemed nothing unusual to me and 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 ingrid much sensitivity either he remembers one of the signs soldiers were made to sing more

intense on us because as i went down to the market where all the children were all women shop where i was shoddy 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. and really start to imagine how i'd feel if people were doing to me what i was doing other people on a regular basis of storerooms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of the night and kids and and children's faces. some blame the type of war the us was fighting 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 benign populace from the insurgents who wanted to kill them that were absolutely indistinguishable from regular civilians. seventy five. even according josh the bush 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 chick on our team washington d.c. . brought back 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 wars as within the u.s. military just as they were doing 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 the full version of the interview with the antiwar activist and director of the coalition. in the next hour here on r.t. and all of these residents or healthiness hits the streets of new york well together opinion on this story. should they be releasing sensitive information this week let's talk about that i'm a journalist and i think freedom the people need to know what's happening and i think it's great is there anything that the public should 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. 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 about i'm sure there's a bunch of you that 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. leaning one. 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 know but should the information 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 was 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 act that so let's just hope it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. the chinese authorities say around six hundred barrels with toxic chemicals remain missing in a river flowing towards russia while six thousand of the containers swept away in floods have been recovered. may have already caused pollution. in russia's far east which is on high alert against the threat. 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 have been washed into the. the 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 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 be environment and also makes it much more difficult to extract them to the surface and since the river is

a major source of fresh water in the city. and in russia's far east in general many 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 because. 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 these things we won't be able to drink this water toll of course. very concerned about the situation as well and the russian consulate and embassy are cooperating with authorities in china the officials. are already planning ways to distribute fresh water to the local population in case it. does occur for the emergencies ministry which is monitoring the quality of the water taking

samples at least twice a day they say. they haven't found any abnormalities. there were still plenty more coming your way this including. this is a baby books if a mother wanted. to pull. its. critics. to give up their children. even. a u.s. led report the plane. can find out why in a few minutes from here. the u.s. state of arizona has enforced new illegal immigration legislation this week but the most disputed parts of the bill were struck just before it was enough to 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. doesn't sound like your typical immigration protests today i feel great. everybody was very excited. in. it. because just before the law was to be enacted and i. just provisions. to be removed a celebration over one hundred a long hot days in the meeting. that salivary. governor brewer signed that. year every summer. break but it wasn't going. to hurt somebody.

pretty you know a big day twenty four hours and 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 and we're right here we're we're directly on the brink 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 venture an 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 are coming here for 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 will 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 feeling. the cold have come here for a better future with this lead the first step we have to keep 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 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 been confirmed by moscow and the international investigation accuse the north of carrying out a torpedo attack and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said there was overwhelming evidence pyongyang was to blame it was always denied its involvement in the sinking foreign policy analyst even gallon says the result of the first report raised doubts even within south korea. well apologies for that so we obviously can't bring you that at the moment. other news now abandoned babies are often found in strange an 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. 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 meet her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on the handle and put the child inside now it doesn't just a 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 now so maybe books as soon as the babies placed inside the door locks 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 yeah. 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 stores 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 love 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 that baby box child. come from a big family of four brothers and three forty cousins who refuse to live with me so i'm going to do they do not know where or when but sure enough it was a matter of time before someone don't want the child will become

a welcome addition to their family. r.t. prague 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 to celebrate the anniversary the current crew sent a message from space. square to be welcomed here in our space office is the best window view traffic jams on the way to work though there are not many people around and space aliens haven't visited us yet who never balls and luckily we are far away from each well artesian thomas was lucky enough to get a close up look at the workings of the eye assess 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 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 or mission we worked hard to 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 a fear that capsule was attached that the space station became livable. but made it possible for the crew to stay and build the station would be impossible to build the station at the pace it was constructed at without this special part. movie infrastructure was now in place it was up to the station's first crew to get everything in motion bitter with being a 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 r s 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 which i think a part of my 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 john thomas r.t. moscow. brings up stay for a moment i'll be back with a recap of our headlines in just a couple minutes. and .

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blazes caused by record breaking heat in russia have spread into new areas the wild 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 and feeding america more. trying to turn the tide water supplies of russia's far east under threat as hundreds of barrels containing toxic chemicals are still floating down a chinese river towards the country's. bitter sweet celebration the sting is taken out of arizona immigration law just before it's elected to the point is. one of the few moments from now the story of the men behind bars looking to literally ride their way out of captivity a special report on how a prison rodeo is the only hope for freedom for some conflicts that's coming up very shortly here on alt.

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