and that this was cool 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 know in alexandria killings house was burned to the ground it was one of the many inverted nish destroyed by the fierce fire tools 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 imagine 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 home but in fifteen minutes he called back instead everything and there are no firefighters here when i turned to come closer to the homes there was panicking. people from the hospital which was not. anyone. of them to have seen my children. with a friend or 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 concerned and the situation on the shore more damages and. that was sara fast reporting that a story will be keeping you up to date with those forecasts of just one hole to weather by next friday. coming up later in the program this summer is a u.s. veterans of the soon to log say that shooting at civilians is nothing unusual and tell r.t.o. ground there it's. and perilous peninsular even south koreans are now down to the findings of the u.s. led report that blames pyongyang for

a signal that something was shipped in march why in a few minutes time here when i was here. this week the u.s. added thirty seven billion dollars so it's watch us to proved by congress after two months of delays it comes as they whistle blowing website wiki leaks published seventy five thousand classified american documents on the afghan war with some suggesting the killing of hundreds of civilians has been covered up the pentagon is investigating the source of the lead hand a soldier has been charged with releasing classified video of a military operation the white house says the leaks threaten national security and has asked if we can leaks to stop posting secret material but the organization is founder and editor in chief of giuliana song says they try to cooperate with the u.s. administration but received no response but we're looking at the issue seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back keep doing thousand reports for for that because they had this sort of classification that suggested 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 thought except that request . in april we can leaks released a video apparently showing u.s. troops in iraq shooting at civilians from a helicopter shocking as this may seem former soldiers told r.t. that such incidents take place more often than they also russians would like to admit get a check of now reports. 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 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 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 they come to killings seemed nothing unusual to him 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 ingrate much sensitivity either he remembers one of the songs soldiers were made to sing more intense on going is because 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 from 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 what are your people were doing to me what i was doing so people on a regular basis of storerooms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of an i think lives and in children's faces. some blame the type of war the u.s. was flying 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. rather. 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 as chicken r. t. washington d.c.

america's highest ranking military officer admiral mike mullen has played down there we can leaks express a saying much of the information is old and its release will not affect current strategy but brian becker from the whole coalition says the revelations are new and will rouse out who sentiment among the public. something very strange and hypocritical about the pronouncements that this is nothing new if you went back in one nine hundred seventy and looked at the new york times coverage of the pentagon papers which also use classified documents to tell the story of vietnam the pentagon in the media said the same thing or this is old news this is old news nothing relevant here they said the same thing during the pentagon papers but what was new was that the american people were learning about it for the first time and that's what's new that's what makes it a catalyst for in the war opposition. and

you can see the full interview with antiwar activist brian becker later in the program. the chinese authorities say around six hundred barrels of oil highly toxic chemicals remain missing in a river flowing towards russia while six thousand of the containers swept away in floods have been recovered there are fears some may have already caused pollution. office in russia's far east which is on high alert against this threat. basi there 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 the whole 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 much more difficult to extract them to surface and since the river is a major source of fresh water in the city of standing now 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. it's not the first time we've had problems like this in the winter there was a big chemical spill and we had to use what's a filters china has to find a way to prevent the stains but we won't be able to drink the sort so it'll of course the the off. russia are very concerned about this situation as well and the russian consulate and embassy are cooperating with authorities in china nevertheless the official skewering from bottles are already plenty we used 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. there with r.c.n. here's what's coming up the south again. this is a baby box if

a mother wanted to leave her child all should have to do would be to pull on this handle and put the child inside so baby boxes designed to save little lives are criticised by some for encouraging mothers to abandon their newborn babies. and a decade in space as they are says marks ten years since its first presidents movie would talk to the current crew and take a look inside. the u.s. state of arizona has in fact had a controversial new immigration law this week but without highly contentious police powers critics said were racist random checks of people state as we're now happen and a move which had given rise to fears that ethnic groups would be racially targeted but those who oppose the new law still far from happy about the way immigrants are treated in the u.s. . i don't think. it was it is.

doesn't sound like your typical immigration protests today i feel great as the owner of guy one of my guys everybody was so excited bring it in. and yeah it was. that's because just one day before the law was to be enacted i. sat harshest provisions i'm here celebrating with the fleet our victory. were to be moved a celebration over one hundred a long hot days in the making. a. run for the us didn't have much to celebrate and i mean it's not an arm or a sign immigration law pay for any or every single day five am. right but it wasn't going to lock down some of the most controversial measures. they say their prayers were answered with we've been pretty you know every day twenty four hours

a day this is taking over or our lives and right now this is the only issue we can work because there's so much demand for it and we're right here 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 could be a patriot belong to god. and stand in solidarity with america's immigrant population but although vendor an activist jonah clearly is busy these days he's not very optimistic about the future of the hispanic community a lot of the roads that are coming here are coming here to escape political and economic systems that we created in their country they're coming here for for the ability to live to have clued to have children to have what they need to take care of their. and they can't have that where they came from but largely as a result of united states imperialism in their country

a sentiment that was at code by native born ad 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 the most of these folks want to drop a different kind of bomb on us and demand that the us government listen to what they say for all of you. all have come here for a better future with this leave the first step we have to keep making their voices heard in our lives you know dina go soft archie phoenix arizona. north korea has demanded access to the investigation of a south korean warship sinking that killed forty six sailors back in march and early in international investigation had accused north of torpedoing the vessel but

a south korean newspaper has leaked the recent results of a russian that inquiry that suggested it had paid a mind however the information has not been confirmed by moscow u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton sat there was overwhelming evidence beyond gang was to blame but north korea vehemently denies involvement foreign policy analyst stephen gallant says the result of the first report raises doubts it was in 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's 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 the

day 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. dundon further developments on the divided peninsula a land mine which was swept across the border from the north during heavy flooding has killed one south korean and injured another the device exploded with a man trying to take it to misread officials say it's unclear why they tried to take it away with them warnings have been issued to people in the area as about setting mines have been found that in the past two days. and to some other stories making headlines right now around the world in pakistan the death toll from the most devastating flooding in over eighty years has risen to over eleven hundred officials fear more deaths as remote areas remain inaccessible flooded roads and

damaged bridges are hampering rescue efforts some twenty seven thousand are still stranded in distant villages. eight people have been killed in kashmir as protests against indian rule intensified on sunday security forces fired at thousands of demonstrators killing for an angry crowd then set fire to a police station causing saw more deaths after a new nation store side exploded and over so to have now died in six weeks of protests. also greek truck drivers have announced they are suspending a weeklong strike and entering into talks with the government they say they will return to work on monday but warned of more disruption if there's no agreement that action has caused a major of your shortage with muchi of vehicles being forced to deliver petrol the truckers walked out of the government plans to open up their sector to help tackle the country's financial crisis. abandoned babies are sometimes left in cardboard

boxes discarded in places to be found by strangers in the czech republic throw a special facility allows women to safely give up their newborn babies but the so-called baby box has triggered a controversial public reaction. then the czech republic but first saw it there just nondescript on the side of hospitals 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 all should have to do would be to pull on this bundle and put the child inside it doesn't have the metal container an imprint would be able to survive here for several hours but usually there are skewed wouldn't start. a minute 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 on us baby books as soon as the babies placed inside the door locks

on the outside and in the llama 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 i 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 now a cloud though the baby box is high tech with three hundred twenty eight parts special places to leave unwanted children exist 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 now 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 a baby box child. come from a big family i have four brothers and three forty cousins. nephews and everything

so i like children 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. artsy prog. this week marked ten years as the international space station welcomed its first residence russian life support systems installed sailors now allow crews spend more time in orbit celebrate the tenth anniversary of the current occupants sent a message from space. square to be welcomed here in our space office is the best window of you know traffic jams on the way to work you know there are not many people around in space aliens having visited us years who know the boards and luckily we are far away from the heat. there and artie's show thomas was lucky enough to get a close up look at the workings of the high says but with his figured 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 a fear that 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. movie infrastructure was now in place it was up to the station's first crew to get everything in motion you know we 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 nourished 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 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 and possibly even longer of 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. you're up to date and i'll be back with a recap of our headlines in just a couple of minutes so stay with us for. the .

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a huge firefighting effort is mobilized as blazes caused by red called breaking he's in russia spread with such a debt already out thousands are losing their homes. afghanistan secrets the u.s. and some billions to battle budget as an internet leak of top secret documents expose a civilian deaths and cover ups in afghanistan and suggests of war strategy in big trouble. also poison peril water supplies and russia's far east on this rant as hundreds of barrels of toxic chemicals continue floating down a chinese river towards the country's border. debases sweet victory arizona's hispanic community welcomes a softening of the state's controversial new immigration law with leaders say plenty more needs to be done. so let's get more on that so we can leak story with brian becker direction of the american antiwar answer coalition on hicks plains why he believes the documents were released and who is behind it.

detail of the accounts of the war in afghanistan thousands and thousands of these documents met by criticism from the white house that said this is going to endanger our troops in afghanistan and by skepticism from a lot of people what's your take on this i think the obama white house is presenting is disingenuous and hypocritical they're the ones sending you are soldiers and marines to kill and to be killed they're the ones putting people's lives at risk and in fact taking those lives in a war that they know cannot be won but they have not told the truth about that the wiki leaks cache of documents these ninety two thousand documents paint a grim portrait that indicate that the leaders the politicians and the leaders in uniform the military.