schools 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 tore through people's homes 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 those are 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 we've been hit way continuing and fires still burning throughout central russia many towns villages and homes remain. 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. whilst many have lost their houses to the fire kareena and alexandra remain great name that like so 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 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 to first. 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 there is a for clues to our home i rushed home but in fifteen minutes he called back instead everything and there are no firefighters here when they tried to come closer to the homes there was panicking. people from the hospital which was in flames. any one. of them to have seen my children when a friend of my children. 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. and we can't control it but we can't control you know. to pray for peace. 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 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 keen to put an end to this situation and ensure that more damage isn't. better assaraf fast reporting there a story. we'll be keeping you up to date with those full costs just even hotter weather by next friday. coming up for you this hour here not see with me to turn off the war his fight against the military campaign landed him five months behind bars. and perilous peninsular if the south koreans now down to the findings of a u.s. led report that blame people young for sinking itself warship south korean warship

in march find out why in a few minutes time when i say. this week the u.s. added thirty seven billion dollars to its war chest approved by congress after two months of delays it comes as the whistle blowing web site we can leaks publish 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 leak and 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 we can leaks to stop posting secret material but the openness ations founder and editor in chief drew down a song says they tried to cooperate with the u.s. administration but received no response. so we're looking at the issue seriously to see whether it is true we did hold back between 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 . and also he's resident gloryhole photos take the streets of new york to gather views on the we can leak story. should they be releasing such sensitive information this week let's talk about that i'm a journalist and i think freedom you the people need to know what's out there 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 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 it should absolutely not be shared out of

ninety one thousand reports it was possible i'm sure there's a bunch in there that's bad stuff i believe that you know america should know a lot of things but also america should be kept in the dark about other things and they compared to the pentagon papers this was released without a lot of. 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 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. meanwhile the nestlings has become the first nato member to withdraw from afghanistan and two thousand dutch troops are heading home with their base now in the hands of u.s. and australian contingent. this comes as british forces push forward on day three of an operation in central helmand province british and i've been troops have reportedly cleared several times been buildings including a bomb factory but many veterans who served in the region have returned home with psychological trauma and most of all aussies lore and that spoke to one ex soldier whose refusal to fight cost him his freedom. this is the soldier who said no to the to of speaking out against the conflict one he calls illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government i was i was i listen to people to simplify. you know people in the morning with. these conflicts. you know the call of will to fall off

the wagon which was the message which spin cycle fusion the song so it's time to start listening to public clinton joined the army in two thousand and four and fought for seven months in afghanistan he says he came home a changed man suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder which he claims he was bullied when he heard he was being sent back to afghanistan gone did from the army and didn't come back for two years initially his military superiors were understanding but when joe spoke at an antiwar rally in london they upped his charges to desertion which carries a ten year prison sentence joe's mother says that exposes the hypocrisy of the conflict bringing democracy we've got freedom of speech we're fighting when did you understand in the middle of some deep speaking of optimism benton paid a price for his outspokenness in the notorious military jail the glass house he

thinks the reason it wasn't longer was to avoid a public outcry which could have brought on an examination of the war he served his time along with other soldiers who he says will with him all the way on the stand he'd taken. more support from fellow prisoners. and so much mildness one point when it was going to die it was fantastic so i think i felt a longing for the first. officer that i reckon was so much for the. jews become a poster boy for the stop the war coalition thank you rose welcome following his release from. isn't this someone they consider brave and principled well i mean shouldn't be punished at all he's saying what everyone believes and everyone knows who war is not just on winnable it's immoral it's a disaster is causing time strophe for the people of afghanistan and more and more young british men and women are being sent out to risk their lives for

a war that only the politicians support and even in private they know it's a disaster james glanton story is kay because it comes straight from the front line as do the ninety thousand documents released this week showing the on van ness troops of a bloody conflicts and going by clinton's account of the support he received from other soldiers during his time in prison there is dissent inside the armed forces something the government could have a hard time make nor read nor emmett's r.t. london. this is all see and also the later in the program just fear nor to turn a dangerous ex-con could soon be living in a bag munis this as the country looks forced to end its practice of keeping some of the phone does not after they've served their sentences. and a decade in space as they are says marks ten years since its first residents moved in which talk to the current crew and take a look inside. chinese authorities say around six hundred barrels

with highly toxic chemicals remain missing in the river following the flowing rather towards russia while six thousand of the containers swept away in floods have been recovered there are fears some may have already caused pollution. russia's far east is on high alert against a threat. base either just around fifty years ago the water in the arm or 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 had been washed into the river last wednesday as a result of the biggest experience in a decade but that means that several more barrels are still in the water and the river joins the. chinese located just several dozen kilometers away from here these

barrels are clearly en route to words russia journeys are 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. also be en route towards the. well 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 much more difficult to extract them to do 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 . but 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 or we won't be able to drink this water at all of course the authorities in russia are very concerned about the situation as well and the russian cause 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. jermyn looks forced to scrap its system of keeping violent criminals andrea offenders under lock

and key even after their sentences are up the european court of human rights has ruled so-called preventive detention and legal this means potentially dangerous individuals could soon be back in the community. shifty glances a nervous stares that's all we managed to see walter h. a mugger a sex offender now living in the german city of sub he's got it all day every day by the least for policeman but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again and i think it is very dangerous for the people who live in the area because they don't know that such people. such people as this close to them believe that security security of the. environment is a big good or has probably only seen. the release from the prison now many if you work in this building there's no police but since

he is living here there's always a police all the people in town are talking about. and knowing all the people don't want him to be here because there is a school next door and as a kid they got. mr right should still be in prison under germany's policy a preventive detention was designed to keep offenders like him behind bars even after a sentence was served because they were still deemed a danger to the public but it was a policy that fell foul of the european court of human rights which ruled the practice unlawful the german government argued it worked and defended it to the end it's get pushed into failing of course there's a danger that to convict could stay in preventive to tension for the rest of his life but to avoid the situation we have frequent specialist checks to assess their condition and repeat a fall campaign thomas brookman opposes preventive detention because he wants longer sentences in the first place. last year another sex offender not given

preventive detention was released back into his community a move that still causes angry protests today now these fears of being replicated across germany god would be for a few of these criminals we repeat such crimes again that's the worst thing that could happen and it probably will happen because they were put away others also think the new arrangements are less than satisfactory it costs far more to keep offenders under guard in the community than behind bars the german newspaper billed put the figure at twelve thousand euros a day compared to one hundred eight in prison a large price to pay when lawyers argue it hardly provides the freedoms of daily life if he goes into a shop and there's always two people following him if he goes to a doctor two people are next to him and that's that impossible to have a normal life michael ray burger is now fighting for greater freedoms mr h. the criminals rights are of little worry to most germans and chris about the safety

of their own families people here are concerned about this man in their midst but it's estimated there could be at least another two hundred twenty dangerous criminals released soon across germany was thought might ease conscience's in strasburg doesn't ease anyone's nerves here tom barton r.t. broken germany than a while germany may be forced to release potentially dangerous individuals into the community in the us convicts have to go to extreme lengths just for a taste of freedom next hour we'll take you to america's most infamous and largest maximum city maximum security prison where inmates battle balls without training for fame and a quick back. speak

. to him. a. the u.s. said arizona has enacts had the controversial new immigration law this week but

with vast highly contentious police powers critics said were racist random checks on people staters won't know hoppin a move which have given rise to fears that asking groups who may racially targeted abodes who oppose the new law still far from happy about the way in grants are treated in the u.s. i don't think it. is it is something. that doesn't sound like your typical immigration protests today i feel great as beautiful guy was my god everybody was so excited bringing it in. and you know 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 believe our victory. were to be removed a celebration over one hundred a long hot days in the making. i think was

how much to celebrate and i mean it's not a number assigned immigration law they say any year every so there was a boom five am. right but it what are you going to lock down some of the most controversial measures and took a step back and their prayers were answered with we've been pretty you know every day twenty four hours a day 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 here move right here were directly on the brink of regret 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. the 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 them birds that are coming here are coming here to escape the political and economic systems that we created in their country they're coming here for for the ability to live to have food to have children to have what they need to take care of their families and 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 at code by native born add naturalized citizens alike blaming the very nation they would do anything to stay in this country is so criminal and its actions all over the world it has no right to tell one group of people not to cross borders when it's crossing illegally crossing borders and all over the world to bomb innocent people but most of these folks want to drop a different kind of bomb and i demand that the u.s. government listen when they say we're all here. we all have come here for a better future with this legally the first step we have to continue making their

voice heard in our presence you know the soft archie phoenix arizona. north korea has demanded access to the investigation of a south korean warship sinking that killed four six sailors back in march and that investigation had accused the north of the vessel but a south korean newspaper has leaked a recent results of a russian that inquiry that suggested it had hit a mine however the information has not been confirmed by moscow and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is sad there was overwhelming evidence pyongyang was to blame but north korea vehemently denies involvement foreign policy analyst stephen cohen says the result of the first report raises doubts even within south korea. the lead government is not a government that is interested in peaceful coexistence with north korea. is to see the collapse of north korea and its absorption into the south. it's also suspicious

that the south korean government's report was released on the eve of gubernatorial and local elections there'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. let's now check 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 ridges are humbling rescue efforts some twenty seven thousand are still stranded in distant villages. eight people have been killed in kashmir as

protest 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 four more deaths after ammunition stored inside exploded over thirty have now died in six weeks of protests. and greek trying drivers have announced they are suspending a weeklong strike and entry into talks with the government they say they'll return to work on monday but wall of more disruption if there's no agreement that action has caused a major fuel shortage with mu true 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. this week marks ten years since the international space station first became inhabitable a decade ago russian module docked with the orbiter in an event which

revolutionized research at the station where i assess is the largest contraction in space and many countries are involved in the project the program was originally going to end in twenty fifteen but it's been extended by five years and to celebrate the station's anniversary the current crew sent a message from space. square glad to be welcomed here you know space 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 haven't visited us yet you know the ball is crushed and luckily we are far away from the heat. and back with every couple headlines in just a couple of minutes and. vote

for bush. he always adds by one vote 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. they can flip the boat that. wealthy british style the sun. has moved on to the tightly. guarded.

market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or no holds barred global financial headlines. for the fall we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and i guess this is all say a days of the top stories of the day and from the week. raging inside a huge firefighting effort is mobilized as blazes called by record breaking these

in russia spread the session dead already and thousand is amazing that. afghanistan secrets the u.s. odds of billions to his possible budget as an internet leak of top secret documents expose a civilian deaths and cover routes in afghanistan and suggest a war strategy and big trouble. also poison peril water supplies in russia's far east on the threat as hundreds of barrels of toxic chemicals continue floating down the chinese we were told the country's border. on to base a sweet victory i reserve as hispanic community welcomes a softening of the state's controversial new immigration law but leaders say plenty more needs to to be. as the headlines up next we'll bring you the story of the man behind balls looking to literally ride their way out of captivity our special report tells how a prison radio is the only hope for a freed of the sense convicts that's right now here in r.c.

. the prisons may be filling up but the schools certainly are not louisiana has the worst high school dropout rate in the u.s. and loses around forty students every day something your courage is i've not been able to stop. my greatest concern is what happens to the ones that are eleven and twelve and thirteen and fourteen fifteen years old that are in the pipeline on their way to angola and as you can see in i was system we have a huge pipeline no. no no no no no no no no no no we treat our church.