station that this fire has caused this is left 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 tore 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 that has been set up to help them is it been left. with an 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 heat wave continuing and fire 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 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 enough to breastfeed center in the face the head and we finished 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 our home i rushed home but in fifteen minutes he called back instead everything is burned down and there are no firefighters here when i turned 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 with 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 not to fooling to destroy. 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 talent second of all this is the day of the light at 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 and of course you can see behind me the destruction that these fires are causing. everyone very very keen and the situation under still more damages and. that was sour fast reporting that a story will be keeping you up to date with those forecasts are just one hotel whether by next friday and coming out in the program the source of u.s. veterans or to say that shooting at civilians is nothing unusual and tell us he of how they would grant that. perilous peninsula in south korea is now down to the findings of a u.s. led report that blame pyongyang is that sinking

a southern warship and launching find out why in a few minutes time. this week the u.s. either thirty seven billion dollars to its war trust approved by congress up to two months of delays it comes as the whistle blowing web site 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 leak the soldier has been charged with releasing classified video of a military operation the white house says the leaks threaten national security and has asked wiki leaks to stop posting secret material but the organizations founder and editor in chief joel a song says they tried to cultivate it with the u.s. administration but received no response we're looking at the seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back people being 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 did not accept that request . and i can makes released a video apparently showing u.s. troops in iraq shooting at civilians from the helicopter shocking as this may seem for soldiers told r.t. that such incidents take place more often than the authorities would like to admit . faults. you 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 visitant was investigated in the u.s. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law

of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the us military is ok with causing some collateral damage it's when civilians die in the course of action a number of soldiers who were involved in those killings now speak out and say this shouldn't be a norm of warfare you can see in the east in 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 with the secret video of halle compted killings seemed nothing unusual to him and from my 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 than ten songs because as i went down to the market where all the children were all women shop when i was shouting 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 durance me or what i was doing other people on regular basis of storerooms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of the night i think lives and and children's faces. some blame the type of war the us was finding for the psychological trauma so many american soldiers are now going through it was a very disorienting and destabilizing condition of warfare for most american soldiers to try to separate the but nine populace from the insurgents who wanted to kill them that were absolutely indistinguishable from regular civilians. seven roger. 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 inside out again is chick on our team washington d.c. . america's highest ranking military officer admiral mike mullen has played down

they weaken league six possess a say much of the information is old and its release will not affect current strategy but brian becker from the us antiwar coalition says there revelations i need and will rather that antiwar sentiment among the public. something very strange and hypocritical about the pronouncements that this is nothing new if you went back and 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 so 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 the war opposition. and you can see the full interview with antiwar activists brian becker later in the

program. the chinese authorities say around six hundred barrels with 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 r.t.c. group is going off is in russia's far east which is on high alert against a threat. basically 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 old we 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 the 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

they're leaking and the chemicals will come anyway. it's not the first time we've had problems like this in the winter there was a big can it will spill and we had to use what's a filter is china has to find a way to prevent the steam we won't be able to drink this water toll of course. russia are very concerned about the situation as well and the russian cause and embassy are cooperating with authorities in china nevertheless the officials queuing for bottles are already plenty we're used to distribute fresh water to the local population in case it contamination does occur but thankfully still for the emergencies ministry which is monitoring the quality of the water by taking samples at least twice a day see so for the haven't found any abnormalities there was also here and here's what's coming up this hour for you. 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. baby boxes designed to save little lives are criticised by some for encouraging mothers to abandon their newborn babies. and a decade in space has the eye says marks ten years since its first residents moved in we talk to the current crew and take a look inside. the u.s. state of arizona has a controversial new immigration or this week but with that highly contentious police powers critics said were racist random checks on people state as we're now have 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 with the. the book. as it is. doesn't sound like your typical immigration protests today i feel great as people

have said i don't know my god everybody was so excited for a day 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 community and our victory. were to be moved a celebration over one hundred a long hot days in the making. and the positive how much that celebrate and i mean it's not an arm or a sign that maybe raise a lot bigger than your every single day five am. break but it wasn't always a lock down but some of the most controversial measures. they say their prayers were answered with we've been in pretty well you know 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 camera right here we're directly on the thick of it right on the front lines of what is a national struggle and whenever there's a national struggle money has to be made here. now. where anyone can be a patriot belong to god. and stand in solidarity with america's immigrant population but although vendor an activist jonah clearly 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 who are coming here her for the ability to live to have clued to have children to have what they need sticker 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 and i demand that the us government listen to what they say for all the time we have here for a better future with this leave the first step we have to keep making their voices heard in our presence no soft ski archie phoenix arizona. north korea has demanded access to the investigation of a south korean warship sinking that killed forty six am this back in march and then an international investigation had accused the north of torpedoing the vessel but a south korean newspaper has leaked a recent results of

a russian led inquiry that suggested it had hit a mine however the information has not been confirmed by the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said there was overwhelming evidence beyond young was to blame but north korea vehemently denies it will and foreign policy analysts to the gallon says the result of the first report raised doubts it would 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 is also the case and. the idea that the north korean submarine could have been operating in the shallow waters in which to cheer and saying it is incredible that but one could make the argument that the entire point of this 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. further developments on the divide of peninsular a land mine which swept across the border from the north during heavy flooding has killed one south korean and injured another the device exploded after the men tried to take it home military 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 thirteen miners have been found there in the past two days. let's not check some other stories making news 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 doubts as remote areas remain inaccessible flooded roads and damaged readers are hunkering rescue efforts some twenty seven thousands are still stranded in a distant villages. at least thirty two people have been wounded in southern

gaza as a huge blast leveled the house of a hamas commander in a refugee camp the missing commander was known as a bomb maker palestinian officials say the explosion was the result of an airstrike which israel's military denies israeli forces killed last command in an age of an air raid on saturday after a rocket attacks into israel from gaza by unknown palestinian groups in which no one was injured. and a greek trunk drivers have announced they are suspending a weeklong strike and tearing into talks with the government they say they'll return to work on monday but warns of more disruption if there's no agreement their action has caused a major fuel shortage with a move to 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 all discarded in places to be found by strangers in the czech republic a special facility allows women to safely give up their newborn babies but the so-called baby box has. triggered a controversial public reaction. there 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 if a mother wanted to meet her child or she'd have to do would be to pull on this handle and put the child inside now it wasn't just the metal container an infant would be able to survive here for several hours but usually they're rescued within several minutes by those on the other side the first one was placed in this private hospital it's still the most popular with nearly fifteen children left here in five years. maybe books as soon as the babies placed inside the door locks on the

outside and then the alarm is settled 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 that 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. though the baby books is high tech with three hundred twenty parts special places to leave unwanted children exist even in ancient times. but the government was wary of the baby books 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 and prague although they can have children of their own don't also like to adopt a baby box child. come from

a family of four brothers and three forty cousins. nephews and everything 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. artsy prog. this week marks ten years since the international space station welcomed its first residence russian life support systems installed since now allow crews spend more time in orbit to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the current occupants sent a message from space. square glad to be working here in our space office is the best window of you know traffic jams on the way to work though there are not many people around and space aliens haven't visited us yet we're never bored and luckily we are far away from each. so also has shown thomas was lucky enough to get a close up look at their workings of the i assess what his fate found 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 responsibly i.s.a.'s is a major contemporary space project and 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. we worked hard to provide similar operation of both the mir orbital station and preparation for the 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 worldwatch but it wasn't until ten years ago when there's very the capsule was attached that the space station became livable know what. made it possible for the crew to stay and be. 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 good with being a dealer because two weeks were critical since a lot of the systems were being activated for the first time some russian system segments were merged with us systems those machines had never seen each other in

earth and that was the first time they would work together. ten years on the i s s is approaching the record for a structure being continuously inhabited in space and on are 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 has 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. care to date on the back with a recap allowed top stories and a couple of minutes.

every month we give you the future you understand how to get. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. this is all see and these are the top stories of the day and from that week regime found are not so subtle lights report one hundred hot spots in russia as wild as

a record breaking heat wave in the country spread with such data thousands made homeless. poisoned arrow hundreds of bottles of toxic chemicals flowed down the chinese agree with towards the border with russia with concerns not with a safe one to supplies the far east of the country. protests we'd be tree i result as hispanic community welcome as a softening of the state's controversial new immigration bill but leaders say plenty more needs to be done. gotta stop the secret is to do us well. it's billions of dollars as a whistle blowing web site leaked thousands of classified secrets exposing civilian deaths in afghanistan and coverup. let's now get more that we can leak story was brian becker director of the american anti who was a coalition and he explains why he believes the documents were released and who's

behind it. detailed 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 but i think what the obama white house is presenting him is disingenuous and hypocritical they're the ones 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 know.