that we've seen recently and was russia is not unused to hot weather in summer this is the worst drought that it's seen a decade and it's left the land extremely dry and extremely susceptible to these toys that we've ravaged some of the areas i have read she really has done a huge amount of damage to towns and villages and left thousands and thousands of people homeless. the region where you are now has been devastated by fires as you've been saying so how are people there doing with it on the ground. well here in the city they got to the refuge centers where people are able to gayety say that the people who have been left homeless staying there the moment they've had a huge amount of volunteers come forward bringing clothes and food and offering assistance to these people but we've been speaking to some of the locals who witnessed the fires burning their homes they described the shock of the situation and how fierce and quickly the fires told through these towns there really wasn't

much chance for the emergency services to reach there and see anything about it now russia's finance minister has said that this is already run into millions and millions of dollars worth of damage they know it's going to be about trying to help these people who have been left homeless do with this situation we actually went to meet a family to find out how they were caping in the aftermath of. it was supposed to be a new beginning instead it was a fiery end just one day after giving birth to baby victoria kareena and alexandra 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 that has been set up to help those that been left came. 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 a hit wake in tenure 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 a falling one of the electric shock 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 so if. for owners. reporting from the region still ahead this hour on the european farmers getting

serious food for thought. less than a decade ago hungary and drugs were sold to everywhere across western europe and the c.i.s. but now the owner of the dog form has to seek other markets including japan and china it has been very hard for him to sell it. and. we look at why you. hungary's land of plenty. so. the chinese authorities say they've managed to retrieve almost all of the barrels which was sweeping down the flooded river towards russia but the worry is that several drugs are thought to be already leaking dangerous chemicals into the. north as more for russia's far east. chinese authorities do say that they've managed to extract nearly sixty four hundred barrels out of the seven thousand that were washed into the sun or river four days ago as a result of a flood however the cleanup operation is far from over first of all three thousand

barrels out of those which were washed into the water contain toxic substances including acids which may be harmful to the environment and it's not clear how many barrels out of the remaining ones in the water contain these substances secondly chinese media has now reported that some of the barrels were damaged and have leaked some of the chemical substances into the sun corridor and they were detected by specialists all of this is of course raising a major concern in russia since the sun wherever joins the river which you can see behind me over there and that's a major source of fresh water in russia's far east in general and especially in the city of karbala ask where i'm standing now and despite the fact that chinese authorities have now built eleven barriers to prevent the remaining barrels from reaching russia big question is whether these barriers will be will be enough to collect the chemicals if indeed they got into the water unfortunately this is not

a new situation for the locals here just last winter they saw a huge oil spill right on the wood which also arrived from china and they were not able to drink fresh water only were able to drink it using special filters and the clean up operation was quite expensive as well of stories now see that if the chemicals really got into the water it should take them around a week to reach the russian chinese border and another week to reach out of school but they're already planning ways to distribute fresh water to the local population in case of contamination does occur plus specialists are currently monitoring the quality of the are moving at least twice a day and the russian emergencies ministry says that they will increase the number of monitoring stations in around a week but thankfully so far none of. have reported any abnormalities in the almost because. of the online whistleblower wiki leaks is following up its months of exposing more secrets by posting a mysterious encrypted file called insurance false all is huge about one hundred

times bigger than most of the other files posted but so far no one has been able to decrypt it speculation on the web that the password to the archive could be distributed if anything happened to the saw it or its founder jury the sun later this hour we'll hear from neil sheehan an american journalist who fourteen years ago published leaked papers on the vietnam war he says a son should be a warrant he was bound to get there and he was going to be under the heat the military and institutions are going to get. angry over this and this is a major embarrassment to these people that the leak on this scale would occur particularly a little probably could sensitive you know names of informants they could get people killed. so they were bound to go after people who make leaks like this whoever leaked it and who distributed. always have an axe to grind

one of the wiki leaks revelations is that pakistan has been playing a double game with the us the documents suggest islam about billions of dollars in aid from washington while it's only agency was supporting the taliban among those now calling for america to review its policy there is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. going to crucial explains. i agree with senator john kerry that it's high time and actually it's long overdue for the u.s. policy in afghanistan to be recalibrated but to accelerate their recalibration of here is progress in afghanistan it would be very helpful if the next we kill the exposure we'll disclose that link between the cia and i and we'll provide top secret data for both the military and intelligence analyst

and to the world public at large that will exposed beyond the reasonable doubt the c.i. a criminal connection and fattal attraction to the dragon lords as their cherished and protected assets in afghanistan in pakistan and beyond and this type of disclosure real facilitate and percipient daid the most important decision for the u.s. commander in chief in his first and last presidential term that is to call it quits pack up and go home or to stow beating around the bush and unleash their war on drugs in the southern heartland of afghanistan that would be the only way for the u.s. commander in chief and one time u.s. president to exonerate his own and the usa credibility in the eyes of the whole world and to justify the nine the nine years of the operation enduring

futility in afghanistan. well you can find more of it getting through shoals blog on our website dot com of course and there's also much more for you as well as the latest news or take a look at what else is on life you just at the moment done about the role which some leading russians have played in u.s. history russian american quits. on news with a smile an alternative take on what's happening in russia under brought in our exclusive poll soon gallery downs dot com. the rich homelands of hungary have long made it an enviable source for food production but film is best say they're slowly being starved of business since

joining the aussies and it's been hearing about their plight. this is one of the biggest bird farms in hungary more than ten thousand geese and ducks bring quite a profit for its owner liver goose and duck eggs are in high demand he says his land is perfect for this kind of business in the countries in western europe in the us we in hungary keeper birds in open spaces want to claim an environment allows that that's why did the world a world producer. less than a decade ago had gary and ducks were sold to everywhere across western europe and the c.i.s. but now the owner of this dock farm has to seek other markets including japan and china it has been very hard for him to sell it on continent he says that ever since his country became a member of the european union he had to reduce his stock almost two fold that out of the russian market i mean by are in favor of the market return now that europe

apart from france wasn't interested in our products this seriously in fact that the demand and farm owners had to secure their stock because according to new regulations keeping it was too costly before the collapse of the socialist regime and nine hundred ninety hungary was one of europe's breadbaskets its agricultural sector was a strong part of the economy and countries of the post soviet space actually imported hungary and products in two thousand and four the country was accepted into the european union but instead of greener pastures which e.u. membership promised and care in farming suffered a serious blow the european union didn't want to. improve the situation in hungary he only wanted to get down get on markets and they have done it they don't need our production they produce. enough meat to fly and they produce everything they want to people to buy that production. but it is bad for us it's

like a situation if a colony. brussels have a special program to develop regional agriculture and which promise bigger income for farmers but experts say it has brought little result local producers have been losing more than a third of their revenue every year since two thousand and four compared to the nine hundred ninety s. and now even their own market is practically close to them i'm glad foreign supermarkets flooded the hungarian market with cheap goods which are being far better promoted than domestic products and according to e.u. regulations we cannot these supermarkets to sell only our products the only thing we have managed to do to avoid a complete destruction of the local market is to push through legislation which obliges the shelves to have at least thirty percent of domestic production on their shelves hungary has a moratorium on purchases of farmland by foreign as farmers say this is the only thing which keeps their agricultural sector from being completely overrun the ban

expires in april next year and it's unclear whether the euro commission will allow budapest to extend it. lets us ascii art see reporting from hungary. well let's look now what else is dominating the world's headlines today and the months of floods which are raging through northwestern pakistan have now it killed at least one thousand one hundred people emergency workers are struggling to save thousands of of those who are still trapped the situation being made worse by water borne disease with some of those in rescue camps suffering with fever and skin problems the u.n. estimates that about a million people are affected by the country's worst monsoon rains in memory. truckers in greece is suspended a week long strike in big are moving their vehicles the drivers agreed to resume talks with the government which wants to open up their industry to competition and was passed some of the deal in securing bailout funds from the i.m.f.

the strike seriously disrupted fuel and other supplies across the country it's also affected the vital tourist trade which is entering its peak period. a huge blast insolvent garza has leveled the house of a senior hamas commander killing him and injuring thirty two others enough was a known weapons manufacturer and the speculation that a device could have accidentally detonated is palestinian officials say an israeli airstrike caused the explosion but israel's military denies this. well staying in the region now arabs living in israel they more and more laws are being brought in which actively discriminate against known genes and human rights campaigners believe the racism extends beyond muslims. to report on ways that the bill forces prospective citizens to declare loyalty to a jewish and democratic state. they're just back from

two in the states with a protest music found sympathetic ears among jews and arabs they go by the name of damn blood and they're the first arab israeli hip hop group to rap in arabic hebrew and english their lyrics are bold and demand better treatment for arab israelis who they say are treated as second class citizens lieberman is saying. he won a victory out of them for the loud and people elected them so it's not the government. but government is the face of the people like what started first i don't know but this is the situation and seems like the elected gangsters and civil rights groups agree they say it's official the current israeli government is the most racist in israel's history. studied them and so two hundred ninety six instances of all races are not just against arabs there's also a significant rise in racism against other ethnic groups russians. and eastern jew

i believe that israel is a racist country history and continues its bills disaster for the state of israel already at least twenty one bills that arab citizens isa scheme just criminal against them have been passed the most recent prospective citizens now have to swear allegiance to a jewish and democratic state changing the whole discourse in israel now into one in which this sumption is that palestinians are not loyal they have should have no rights they have to prove their loyalty and so this is very much part of that whole so same kind of move. the first victims of this this legislative drive will be the palestinian parliament members means you are because one of them she's one of fourteen our parliamentary members out of one hundred twenty she says it's a daily struggle for arabs to be treated equally even the most liberal israeli parties often struggle to support them the first priority is to keep their position in the coalition government is that this is the house. in this little idea

that this government has no vision not just some pieces of the c.e.o.'s of this shit but also how selfish it is peace with its own citizens but in its defense the same israeli cabinet approved the largest economic development plan for arabs this industrial park is the brainchild of stephan vet a jewish israeli millionaire who has joined hands with sharkey khatib the former mayor of the largest arab city in israel nazareth but at the moment the arabs are not participating in industry in israel stayed in the professions we want to bring arabs into the circle of industry and my vision is up five years from now there will be twenty to twenty five production factories here but that vision is being tested because although parliamentarians don't need to vote on the proposed amendments to the citizenship law another ball that has already been passed includes threatening to cut off funding to institutions that support the

palestinian version of the one nine hundred forty eight war another ball criminalizes and denying israel's right to be called a jewish state which is why they'll be no shortage of lyrics anytime soon and the music will wrap on policy r.t. israel. or coming up soon russia in the most medals championships in barcelona more on the winning streak. in twenty five. ok let's. ask now with danielle is girl related or asking to see this morning in russia stocks markets they've a pin's week on a high have an absolute is more figures out to confirm the economy is getting stronger the details in the program but first it was told by the minion producer russia's roussel says it's ready to buy interested shares in north nickel carly jones

a twenty five percent stake in the nickel and palladium minor interest recently secured the majority of seats on the north called it what russo claimed was a fraudulent vote is demanding the election is held again. the u.k. is warning that russia's drought could cause a double digit rise in food prices before christmas russia is a major food exporter but record temperatures this summer are expected to hold exports there are also fears the government could start an export ban to protect the mystic supplies some experts say the inflation on goods like wheat dairy and meat is scary and could push the country into another recession. despite that egypt says it will buy one hundred eighty thousand tons of russian wheat according to the head of egypt's role materials procurement administration egypt is the world's largest which import buying proximately five and a half million tons a year. called joins us diverse assented stuff on holiday saying it's too hot to work employees at the toll yeti factory down tools this week of the meteorologist

said temperatures will top fifty five degrees celsius the closure comes as a blow to the company which is production in recent months after a rebound in sales. and russian manufacturing is growing it is forced to pay since april two thousand and nine figures out this morning show the sector's purchasing managers' index rose to fifty two point seven last month from fifty two point six in june to rise in commodity prices investors will be watching closely for signs of improvement across the world as states roll out july manufacturing figures throughout the day. time now to check out. the stock markets here in moscow the l.t.s. is open on a high on that strong manufacturing use energy majors a gaining as the price of light sweet holds me eighty dollars a barrel but my six will be hoping to jump back over the fourteen hundred mark when it opens in a few minutes time. and over in asia stocks are mostly low on wall street's weakness on friday even strong gains for sony in this are unable to prop up tokyo

hong kong shares are sliding lower as profit taking. to the markets rose in the previous eight straight sessions. china says it's already become the world's second largest economy the country's g.d.p. it's almost five trillion dollars last year that's just below japan says its eleven point one percent growth in the first half of this year has already put its g.d.p. at five point five trillion. china will overtake the u.s. economy by twenty twenty. after of a decade of debating russia signed a law clamping down on insider trading the new legislation clarifies and defines concepts such as insider information and market manipulation business or to talk to the head of the federal financial markets service to find out what will change. but . it took us a while to find a definition for insiders those who have access to insider information by the nature of their work since we're talking about the public organized market share

prices are formed and the attempts to manipulate the market and made this includes employees of large companies trading once primarily who have access to information that can significantly affect quotes that means employees of financial institutions who work with documents of joint stock companies and with certain categories of clients and therefore have access to information on the volumes of applications and demand an offer on various financial institutions which could be used to influence quote. a particular section of the law lays out responsibility of government employees and workers of organizations who do inspections and have access to such information as a result of the way according to this law one of the key insiders is that federal financial markets service its employees assume a rather high responsibility as they have access to such information and moreover this law covers the actions of the central bank of russia in cases where it performs transactions on the financial markets except for those transactions in

regard to monetary policy. and what kind of people are most likely to trespass the law say traders executive journalists be sure that under this law journalists are another important category of insiders presenting this fact to correctly as a matter of extensive arguments and discussions but i believe that the law provides for market security meaning that the media will not be used as an improper information leak to affect the market it takes one hundred eighty days for a law to come into force so we have enough time to prepare the main legal because some provisions of this law will come into force in a year and criminal liability as well consequently be established over the next three years i think that we have plenty of. time not only to make decisions on major issues but also to clarify and perhaps even a mental or which may have been indorsed by that time will there be a regulatory news service or the company's announcement concerning the share price

. and we're still looking at the issue of determining the terms for disclosing this information in the rest of the world information that significant to the market is disclosed not randomly but rather before the bidding starts in order that everyone should become familiar with it we have such clarity i believe this will take place alongside the implementation of the law. states and capital has become russia's top investment bank in just two years but rival lead there's a crying foul join us next hour from.

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walls caved at least four lives in that. continues to blanket several cities including. chinese emergency managers to retrieve most of the toxic perils that's what into a flood. but they're all fears that some of the. chemicals threatening. lucian downstream. the online whistleblower will be key says following up its massive disclosure of america cover ups it's posted encrypted insurance which some say can be a bit of anything but it's the silent or it's. the media pulling focus and drawing condemnation from u.s. officials leaks themselves in the new but the power of the internet means that they spread phones to and than ever before. to american journalist published

pentagon papers on the vietnam war some forty years ago. first it was u.s. troops killing civilians and journalists in iraq now more than ninety thousand classified documents about the war in afghanistan have been obtained by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks and while this is being called the biggest leak in intelligence history this isn't the first time that important military information has been released to the press and public i'm here with neil sheehan former new york times reporter who released the famous pentagon papers which forever changed the american public's perception of the vietnam war mr she had first of all a lot of people are comparing this story with the pentagon papers story but one major difference between the two is that the source in this case went to a relatively new and modern web site wiki.